Senators cash office-account checks to themselves, decline to share records
Millions from U.S. senators’ office accounts are being paid back to the senators and some senior staff as checks, yet offices are refusing to release records of the transactions.
Not all spending from U.S. senators’ office accounts goes to outside vendors; millions are cycled back into the offices as checks payable to the senators and some top staffers. Requests for records about those payments have not been honored, leaving questions about the scale and rationale of the practice.